Altered Reproductive Outcomes in Women with Eating Disorders

Fertility treatment, twin births, and unplanned pregnancies are more common.

Eating disorders are common in women of reproductive age; accordingly, investigators sought to determine reproductive outcomes in >6300 women with histories of these disorders who received care at one Dutch medical center and who completed a questionnaire. The study cohort included 170 women with lifetime (recent or past) anorexia nervosa (AN), 265 with lifetime bulimia nervosa (BN), 130 with lifetime both AN + BN, and 1395 with other psychiatric disorders (depression, anxiety, psychosis, or manic episodes). The remaining 4367 women made up the comparison group.

After adjusting for confounding factors, women with BN had more than twice the likelihood of having received fertility treatment than women in comparison group (3.2% vs. 1.4%; odds r…

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Robert W. Rebar, MD

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Consultant/Advisory BoardMyovant Sciences, Inc.

Editorial BoardsEndoText; Clinical OB/GYN Alert

Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesAmerican Society for Reproductive Medicine (Member, Ethics Committee)

Robert W. Rebar, MD

Disclosures

Consultant/Advisory BoardMyovant Sciences, Inc.

Editorial BoardsEndoText; Clinical OB/GYN Alert

Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesAmerican Society for Reproductive Medicine (Member, Ethics Committee)

Altered Reproductive Outcomes in Women with Eating Disorders

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